I have tried for several years past to raise larvæ of Satyrus nephele to maturity, but met with no success till this last spring. It is very easy to obtain the eggs by confining the female with a tuft of grass. I tied a gauze bag on such a tuft set in a flower pot, while in the Catskills, and 21st August, 1876, obtained perhaps fifty eggs. Some were laid on the blades and stems of the grass, but many were dropped loose on the ground. The eggs hatched about the 21st of September, and the young larvæ without feeding entered upon their hybernation.

Upper side fulvous, obscured by brown at bases of wings; the discal area of each wing lighter than elsewhere; the black markings rather heavy ; the marginal lines more or less confluent ; the silver spots of second row indicated on upper side by oblong spots of a pale color.

Under side of primaries pale orange-fulvous at base, and in the Pshaped spot of cell; also along the branches of median; rest of wing pale buff, except hind margin and apical area, which are ferruginous ; on the sub-apical patch two silver spots, and the four or five uppermost submarginal spots are silvered.

Experiments and observations during 1874–5, supplemented by comparison of a large suite of specimens, seemed to invalidate the specific separation of vernalis. Submitting the facts to Mr. W. H. Edwards, he confirmed my opinion, and in the recently issued “Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico,” he has placed “vernalis” as a variety of P. protodice.

Our Canadian wood-boring beetles, with the exception of a few somewhat minute species, belong to the two great families of Buprestidæ and Cerambycidæ. These include an immense number of different genera and species ; in Crotch's List of the Coleoptera of North America (north of Mexico) there are enumerated the names of no less than 169 species of the former family and 552 of the latter ; about one-third of these are found in this country. It is evident, then, that to give a bare list of all our Canadian species of wood-borers would occupy no 1ittle space, while a detailed description of them, if one were competent for the task, would fill many numbers of this journal.

In the early part of May, 1876, I secured a newly-developed female moth of the above species to a branch of the common red currant (Ribes rubrum). It was about seven o'clock in the evening of May 6th, to be more precise in regard to time. On the next morning, I visited the spot, and a lusty male was discovered in coition. This condition of things continued until the close of the day, when her amorous partner, lured by the presence of dusky night and midnight revels, gradually loosened his embrace, and hied him away to other scenes.

In the month of July, 1875, I chanced to be in the catskill Mts., when Mr. Mead discovered the food-plant of tharos, as detailed by him in Vol. vii, Ent., p. 161, this being the common wild Aster. A. Novaangliæ, and I obtained from him a cluster of eggs; also afterwards got others for myself by trying the females in bags over the stems of the same plant. The larvæ hatched, and while in their younger stages I brought them to Coalburgh. On the journey, stopping at several points, I had to give them leaves of such species of Aster as I could find, and they are any and all readily–even German Asters from the garden.

In the months of June and July the Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) and the white Pine (Pinus strobus) show by the exuding pitch that they are suffering from the attacks of an insect. The wounds occur on the main stem below, the insertion of the branch. On cutting into the bark the injury is found to be caused by a small larva, which, when full grown, measures 16 to 18 millimetres. The head is shining chestnut brown with black mandibles. The body is livid or blackish green, naked, with series of black dots, each dot giving rise to a single, rather stout, bristle.

Mr. Wm. Saunders has collected a species of Crambus, which is apparently unnoticed by Prof. Zeller or Dr. Clemens, who have written most frequently on our American species. The new species, which I call C. interruptus, is very easily recognized and has been figured by Prof. Townend Glover on his Plates of Lepidoptera. The head is white ; palpi inwardly and beneath white, outwardly dark brown. Thorax white, patagia bright brown. Hind wings and abdomen pearly gray. Fore wings bright brown with a longitudinal white median band obliquely interrupted at the middle of the wing by the ground color.

In an article published in the Entomologist for May, 1873, I gave the results of my observations upon the genus Cynips, so far as they related to the agamous reproduction of certain species.

I showed that at least two-gendered species, C.q. operator O.S. and a species nearly related to, if not identical with, C. q. batatus Bassett, were followed in the next generation by a brood composed entirely of females.

Size moderately large; eyes naked; tibiæ unarmed ; abdomen flattened, with a dorsal carina. Thorax carmine or vinous pink. Fore wings of the same hue over dull olivaceous ; the stigmata indistinct, moderate, deep pink with yellow-o1ive powdery borders ; lines obsolete; subterminal indicated and in color like the annulets to the ordinary spots; fringes clear pink. Hind wings lighter pink, with slightly obscure bases and concolorous fringes. Abdomen yellowish pink, with yellow anal hairs. Beneath marked with bright pink ; no lines ; traces of pink discal marks. Head deeper colored ; antennæ pa1e; breast rich pink. Expanse 45 mil. Hab. Oldtown, Maine; Mr. Charles Fish.

Larva, I example–Body smooth, thick and uniform to the 11th segment, from which it tapers abruptly to the end. Cinnamon brown; a large sub-dorsal, velvety, dark brown shade on the 4th, 5th and 11th rings, and on each of the remaining rings, except the three first and last one, is a dorsal curved line, and two small roundish spots of the same color; two larger, square, dark brown dorsal spots edged with yellowish-white, on the first ring.Head roundish, as wide as the body.

The greta interest in which this beetle has been held by Entomologists for so long has renderes an accurate account of its habits very desirable ; but for a very long period–over twenty years–it has singularly eluded more experienced observers. In the Proceedings of the Kansas Academy of Science for 1876, a slight account was published by Mr. H.A. Brous, but from the very small number taken by him, his article was necessarily imperfect.

The nearest known ally of this species is the European C. Brongniardellum, not C. calicella St., as I suggested before I knew Brongniardellum. Albanotella makes a large, somewhat tentiform mine, on the under surface of oak leaves (Q. obtusiloba and Q. alba); the mine is at first long, winding and Nepticuli-form, ending in the large tentiform blotch. The lanva, before leaving the mine, becomes pinkish red. In the breeding cage it pupates in a cocoonet which it spins on the surface of the leaves. I have never met with the pupa elsewhere, nor have I ever, although I have seen hundreds of the mines, found one on the upper surface of the leaf.

In a former paper I have mentioned the fact then known to me only through Dr. Packard's “Record,” that prof. Zeller had described a large number of American Tineina, some of which would no doubt prove to be identical with some described by me. since then, by the kindness of Dr. Hagen, I have obtained Prof. Zeller's paper., and such species as I have been able to identify by means of his figures and descriptions, are mentioned below, and in addition thereto I think it probable that a few (not more than three or four) other species will be found to have been described by both of us I but of these I am not by any means certain. I do not recognize Xylesthia Clemensella Cham.

This species varies in color from very pare golden yellow to reddish saffron, and in size from about one-fourth of an inch to about one-third. Likewise as to the size and distinctness of the marginal streaks on the fore wings and as to the dark margins of these streaks. Sometimes only the second dorsal and costal will be dark margined, and these not very distinctly; and sometimes all, including the basal streak, will be distinctly dark margined.

I have received from Mr. Frank W. Langdon, of Madisonville, Ohio, a specimen (♀ ) of a new species of Botis, which I name Botis Langdonalis after its discoverer. It is one of the largest and most striking forms yet made known, and belongs to the group of flavidalis, with which it agrees in the general color of body and wings. The fore wings from base to first transverse line are clouded with fuscous, and stained with ochreous. The two discal marks are present, the orbicular a dot, the reniform a streak. The space between the exterior transverse or elbowed line and the subterminal line is much wider than usual, and this space is filled in with a broad fuscous band crossing the hind wings as well ; the lines are only indicated by the contrast of color

In the early spring, from the middle to the end of April, Prof. Lintner and Mr. Hill have taken near Albany a rather small and inconspicuously colored moth, remarkable for its diurnal activity. At first sight I did not recognize it as belonging to the Tortricidæ, but on examination it shows the family characters and seems to be allied to the European genus Cheimatophila. But it is not vein 4, but vein 5 that is wanting on the hind wings, and the other characters sufficiently separate our species.